Disc Dying - Confetti

I've recently taken up disc golf, and most of my discs now get some form of custom dye to make them easier to identify, plus it's fun to make them. 

Confetti Dye

There have been a few of these showing up on Reddit /r/discdying and for sale in various places. They look a bit like the stock Vibram discs, flecks of colour on a plainish disc.

The basic process is a shaving cream dye, but the dye powder is sprinkled on top and left for a few hours. I recently made an order from Dynamic Discs, mostly for some extra putters, towels, minis, shirts and a Birdie Bag for wet rounds, but the shipping was going to be much the same so I added a mixed 10 pack of misprint discs. There are a few nice light coloured discs in there, that while I may not add them to my bag, they'll make for some interesting dyes.

Shaving cream bed

Among these was a pink Lucid Defender - an even more overstable Enforcer, and one I will probably need on windy days if I throw much faster than I currently do, so it's going in my bag. Which means it needs to be dyed. I had seen a few confetti dyes, and wanted to try it out, but most of my dye has been mixed so I had to go with purple iDye Poly.

Sprinkle dye on top. Use a spoon, there is too much on this one

The hope was for a dark nebula kind of pattern on the translucent pink disc.

I started with 90 minutes, but it only left a light dye on the disc.

Just after placing the disc on the dye bed. 

I started again, and left it for 4 hours, and while better it's still not as dark as I'd like.
A few ways to make a more obvious dye would be to:

• use black dye
• spraying acetone on the dye before placing the disc
• increase the time to 12 hours/overnight
• add hot water to the base of the disc. 

There is a light nebula pattern